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11:28 p.m. Donald Trump claims that NATO countries -- along with Japan and South Korea -- don’t pay the United States for the defense our country provides them.

TRUMP STATEMENT: “We defend Japan. We defend Germany. We defend South Korea. We defend Saudi Arabia. We defend countries. They do not pay us what they should be paying us because we are providing a tremendous service. And we’re losing a fortune. That’s why we’re losing. We lose on everything. All I said is that it is very possible that if they don’t pay us, because this isn’t 40 years ago… they may have to defend themselves or they have to help us out.”

FACT CHECK: According to the Wall Street Journal, South Korea paid about $866.6 million in 2014 to the U.S. for the American military presence in the country (which is meant to deter North Korea). That’s about 40 percent of the total cost.

For Japan this year, the country actually covers 90 percent of the cost of Japanese nationals employed by U.S. military bases, including most of the utility costs, rent, and noise abatement. Altogether, the Japanese pay $4 billion of U.S. “base-related expenses.”

On the whole, Trump’s comment about the U.S. shouldering an undue burden under NATO in defense expenditures is not entirely off base. U.S. expenditures as a share of GDP is 3.61 percent, whereas the next closest contributor is Greece’s share (2.38 percent of Greece’s GDP). Most of the partner nations pay quite a bit less than the suggested two percent of GDP that NATO puts in its guidelines.

TRUMP LIED!

11:19 p.m. Donald Trump says Hillary Clinton has spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” on negative ads against him and that he is now “winning or tied” in the polls after spending “practically nothing.”

TRUMP STATEMENT: “She spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue, they’re untrue and they’re misrepresentations and I will tell you this, Lester, it’s not nice and I don’t deserve that. But it’s certainly not a nice thing that she’s done. It’s hundreds of millions of ads and the only gratifying thing is, I saw the the polls come in today and with all of that money over $200 million spent and I’m either winning or tied and I’ve spent practically nothing.”

FACT CHECK: This is mostly false. Clinton has not yet spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” on advertising – she has spent just about $100 million overall. Clinton spent $109.4 million on ads through Sept. 13, according to Bloomberg, compared to Trump’s $18.7 million. A Politico article from Aug. 23 cited data from Advertising Analytics as saying that 55 percent of Clinton’s ads were attacks on Trump and 45 percent were positive spots.

CLINTON STATEMENT: “Donald Trump started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans, and he made sure that the people who worked for him understood the policy. He was actually sued twice by the Justice Department. So he has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.”

FACT CHECK: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit in 1973 against Trump Management, a company led by Trump, who was its president, alleging they used tactics to discriminate against black tenants, according to an August investigation by the Los Angeles Times. A 1973 New York Times story said that the Justice Department “charged that the company had required different rental terms and conditions because of race and that it had misrepresented to blacks that apartments were not available.” In what was the first quote from Trump ever published by the Times, he said of the charges “They are absolutely ridiculous...we have never discriminated...and we never would.” And he counter-sued.

Trump and DOJ came to an agreement two years later in which Trump Management “promised not to discriminate against blacks, Puerto Ricans and other minorities,” according to a June 11, 1975 New York Times story.

HILLARY TOLD THE TRUTH! Trump is a racist!

10:49 p.m. Donald Trump claims that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) controls a lot of the oil in Libya.

TRUMP STATEMENT: ISIS has “oil all over the place, including the oil, a lot of the oil, in Libya.”

FACT CHECK: According to a Bloomberg analysis, Libyan oil fields and pipelines are controlled by a combination of the Government of National Accord, allies of the Tripoli Petroleum Facilities Guard, and the Libyan National Army (and groups aligned with them).

Claudia Gazzini, a Tripoli-based senior analyst at the International Crisis Group, told the Washington Post that it was simply not true that the Islamic State has control of any Libyan oil.

“While it is true that ISIS has attacked oil fields in the Sirte basin area and destroyed key equipment there, they have not sought to keep control of the oil fields,” Gazzini said.

TRUMP LIED!

10:44 p.m. Donald Trump claims “stop and frisk” policies in New York City worked well and brought the crime rate “way down.”

TRUMP STATEMENT: Debate moderator Lester Holt said, “‘Stop and frisk’ was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and hispanic young men—”

Trump replied: “No, you’re wrong. It went before a judge who was a very against police judge. It was taken away from her and our mayor, our new mayor, refused to go forward with the case. They would have won an appeal.”

FACT CHECK: In Floyd v. City of New York, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin -- a Bill Clinton appointee -- found “stop and frisk” policies in New York City violated the Constitution’s Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. Scheindlin ordered the city to reform the policies.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration appealed the ruling, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals suspended the order. The court sent it back to be tried under a new judge. Ultimately, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio decided not to pursue the appeal upon election in 2014, meaning Scheindlin’s ruling was held and the appeal was dropped.

Trump said murder is up in New York City, but murder is actually down 4.3 percent this year-to-date.

The murder rate, however, is up 7.9 percent over the last two years -- which is probably what Trump means since 2014 is the last time “stop and frisk” was implemented in New York.

TRUMP LIED!

CLINTON STATEMENT: “When we talk about your business, you’ve taken business bankruptcy six times. There are a lot of great business people who haven’t taken bankruptcy once.”

FACT CHECK:Clinton is correct. When Politifact looked into this issue, they found six times that Trump has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection: The Trump Taj Mahal in 1991; Trump Castle in 1992; Trump Plaza and Casino in 1992; the Plaza Hotel in 1992; Trump Hotels and Casinos Resorts in 2004; and Trump Entertainment Resorts in 2009.

TRUMP STATEMENT: “Well, it’s very simple to say. Sidney Blumenthal works for the campaign and a very close friend of Secretary Clinton, and her campaign manager, Patty Doyle, went to—they were in the campaign, her campaign against President Obama, fought very hard, and you can go look it up and you can check it out, and if you look at CNN this past week, Patty Solis Doyle was on Wolf Blitzer saying that this happened. Blumenthal sent McClatchy, a highly respected reporter at McClatchy, to Kenya to find out about it, they were pressing it very hard, she failed to get the birth certificate. When I got involved, I didn’t fail, I got him to give the birth certificate.”

FACT CHECK: This has been Trump’s line since the “birther” issue resurfaced this fall, but Clinton’s campaign has repeatedly denied being involved. Patti Solis Doyle, Clinton’s 2008 campaign manager, told Wolf Blitzer a volunteer forwarded an email promoting “birtherism” and that that person was fired. “The campaign nor Hillary did not start the ‘birther’ movement, period, end of story,” Solis Doyle told CNN, saying the volunteer’s actions were “beyond the pale” and that Clinton called Obama campaign manager David Plouffe to apologize.

Blumenthal, a longtime Clinton confidante but not a current campaign staffer, denies ever contacting McClatchy; the former McClatchy bureau chief, James Asher, recently said he clearly recalled the conversation with Blumenthal.

CLINTON STATEMENT: “Your campaign manager said that you built a lot of businesses on the backs of other people. I have met a lot of the people who are stiffed by your business. I’ve met gardeners, dishwashers, architects, glass installers, drapery installers, like my dad was who you refused to pay when they finished the work you asked them to do. We have one of the architects in the audience who designed one of the clubhouses of your golf course. It’s a beautiful facility. It was immediately put to use, and you wouldn’t pay what you said you would pay him.”

FACT CHECK: Clinton was referring to architect Andrew Tesoro, who is featured in a Clinton campaign video saying thatTrump didn’t pay his firm thousands of dollars. But Tesoro was also interviewed by Forbes in July and said despite being shorted “a huge amount of money,”

USA Today did a further analysis of worker payments and found Trump, “has been involved in more than 3,500 lawsuits over the past three decades — and a large number of those involve ordinary Americans…who say Trump or his companies have refused to pay them”

HILLARY TOLD THE TRUTH!

10:10 p.m. Hillary Clinton says the “gun epidemic” is the top cause of death among African Americans.

CLINTON STATEMENT: “The gun epidemic is the leading cause of death of young African American men, more than the next nine causes put together.”

FACT CHECK: This is true: 2014 CDC data shows that 1,505 black males age 20-24 died of homicide by firearm. The next nine leading causes of death together totaled 1,424.

HILLARY TOLD THE TRUTH!

10:07 p.m. Donald Trump claims that his lawyers have told him not to release his tax returns.

TRUMP STATEMENT: “My lawyers say don’t do it. In fact watching the shows, reading the papers…almost every lawyer says you don’t release your returns until the audit is complete. When the audit is complete I’ll do it.”

FACT CHECK: In the letter from Trump’s lawyers released by his campaign, they do NOT say the taxes should not be released. Trump’s tax returns from 2002 through 2008 are closed administratively by agreement with the IRS. Audits for years 2009 and forward are ongoing.

An IRS spokesperson also told the Washington Post that nothing -- including an audit -- “prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information.”

TRUMP LIED!

9:50 p.m. Hillary Clinton claims that Donald Trump’s tax plans would cause a spike in the national debt.

CLINTON STATEMENT: “Independent experts have looked at what I’ve proposed and looked at what Donald has proposed and basically they’ve said this: That if his tax plan which would blow up the debt by over $5 trillion and would in some instances disadvantage middle class families compared to the wealthy were to go into effect, we would lose three and a half million jobs and maybe have another recession.”

FACT CHECK: According to a recent report by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget,“Trump’s plans would increase the debt by $5.3 trillion … [causing] debt to rise to above” 105 percent. Trump’s proposals, in other words, would “substantially worsen the debt.”

Another report by Moody’s analytics service says Trump’s plans would also lose 3.5 million jobs across the country, with the unemployment rate rising to as high as seven percent -- compared to the less than five percent unemployment rate today. The report says job losses would “likely hit lower- and middle-income households the hardest.”

TRUMP LIED!

9:36 p.m. Hillary Clinton claims that Trump received $14 million from his father.

CLINTON STATEMENT: “He started his business with $14 million from his father.”

FACT CHECK: Trump has said on multiple occasions, including an NBC Today Show town hall last October, that his father gave him a “small loan of a million dollars” when he started off in business.

However, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Trump took out numerous loans from his father and his father’s properties toward the beginning of his career. They found that information in a casino-license disclosure in 1985 by Trump’s then-wife, Ivana. At the time of that disclosure, the document said, he owed his father and his father’s businesses approximately $14 million.